Letters to the editor 10-26-12

Who wants to pay additional taxes? I know I do not, and I can't imagine I could find many people who would want to. However, taxes are necessary to support the many services we all benefit from.

Unfortunately, taxes are the only way to support these worthy services. Fire and police protection, street service, park service, the library system and our educational system are just a few of the services which are supported by our taxes.

As we approach our November election, we, as an Orrville community, have an important decision to make in regards to our school district. Previously, our community decided to improve our school system with the building of three new school buildings. Our community also came together and, with private money, built a new athletic complex.

Our next decision, issue 21, is an issue which will be even more impactful on the future of our school district. As you cast your vote, I ask that you not make your decision based on some political rhetoric or from the frustration of paying taxes. It is unfortunate there seems to be a growing perception that our educational system and our teachers are not worthy of our tax dollars.

The truth is that teachers care deeply for their students and go beyond what is required to make students successful. Teachers willingly work beyond the school day grading papers and preparing for the next day's class instruction. Additionally, teachers work on weekends and during their breaks. In many cases, teachers spend most of their summer taking professional classes and preparing their class room for the upcoming school year.

Times are tough economically for many people. However, if we were to look at our local history, generations before us were also faced with this same dilemma. Their lesson and legacy in the face of such hardship should not be taken lightly. Sacrifice for children, school and community is their legacy.

I would ask each voter to carefully consider this issue and base your decision not solely on your dislike for taxes or the negative rhetoric created by our politicians against our educational system, but consider what is best for your community and your family.

A strong and thriving school system provides for a strong and thriving community. After your careful consideration, I hope you will join me in voting yes on issue 21.

Warren Caskey

Orrville

Bain closes ships jobs to China

Editor:

Bain Capital takes over a start-up or on-going business, manage (read: put them into debt) for a few years, then "harvest them for a significant profit" (millions of dollars) then walk away. The result usually has been that the business could not recover and had to close. A few survived.

Sensata Technologies, Freeport, Ill., is (was) a company that made sensors that were sold to automobile assemblers. The company was operating at a substantial profit.

Bain Capital (Romney owns 51 percent) moved in on Sensata Technologies, in Freeport, Ill., took over. Now this business has closed and laid off all workers, after they trained Chinese workers to do their jobs. The equipment is packed up and on its way to China.

Now Bain can deduct, as a cost of doing business, the moving costs to China.

Romney, in his debate with President Obama, stated that businesses do not get perks for outsourcing (cost of moving a business overseas). Maybe his fleet of accountants just take care of this part of outsourcing costs? Or he just forgot -- that is a symptom of Romnesia.

Of course, he looks at this differently than the laid-off regular blue collar Americans do. He must be laughing all the way to the bank (or the Cayman's, Switzerland, Bermuda or other places he stashes his millions.).

The men and women who worked there are on their own, no job, no insurance, but Romney certainly does not give a "fig" -- he, with his campaign entourage, was within a few miles of Freeport but he did not look in on the situation, at all.

Jean Mohr

Wooster

Wiles has performed well as judge

Editor:

With all due respect to former Judge Bailey and his accomplishments, the key word here is former.

My research shows Judge Bailey was elected in 1990; re-elected in 1996 and resigned/retired in 2002. In these 10 years there have been other judge positions available. He didn't run. He could have applied for the job when Judge Leisey retired in mid-term. He chose not to.

Judge Latecia Wiles on the other hand did apply, got the job and all reports show she has done well with finishing out Judge Leisey's term. Now, however, she has to be elected to start her own term and continue the job she has been doing.

Judge Wiles has stayed the course, keeping up with the laws, etc. Now 10 years later Mr. Bailey decides to come out of retirement. Does he have a personal vendetta against Judge Wiles, or is there some other hidden agenda here?

We have an outstanding array of social services in Wayne County. I have lived and worked in New York City and Philadelphia, and they definitely don't have what Wayne County has.

We have a Juvenile Court that really cares for the troubled youth of our community. Youth are not just numbers, but whole people with a past, a family and most importantly they have a future. Our young people are not pushed through a system, but cared for by a team of service providers.

Our Juvenile Court makes me proud to be a resident of Wayne County, because caring for our most vulnerable population is a sign of a thriving community. This is in large part to the hard work and vision of Judge K. William Bailey, who served the Probate and Juvenile court as Judge for 11 years.

Now, I am a young, recent graduate, and just starting my career. So, I know what it is to be desperate for someone -- some organization -- to just give me a "chance," a job so I can prove myself. I get it. But, the sacred role of making decisions in the lives of our community's most vulnerable should not be left to giving someone a "chance."

This holy office is not just a status symbol, it is not a stepping-stone in a career and it is definitely not an entry-level position. Judge K. William Bailey has prepared his whole life for this role, gaining knowledge through study and practice.

If Latecia Wiles cares for our youth (which I truly believe she does), she will seek this knowledge through further academic preparation and through the knowledge gained by further experience of working with children and families. Then and only then do I feel she should be entrusted to this office.

Friends, you have a grave decision to make this November when it comes to the one who will make decisions about our vulnerable families and children. I am voting for the candidate that is most prepared to hold this sacred office.

Cheryl Khyllep

Wooster

Promoting separation hurts nation

Editor:

This is America the year 2012. I read an article to the editor published Wednesday Oct. 3. It had to do with returning our country to the Christian control.

Our president is not attempting to restrict prayer or keep people from having religious freedoms. We humans have many intelligent and at times well thought-out ideas, but the thought of a Christian-run country is unnerving.

I heard a preacher say one Sunday while visiting his church that Sunday is the most segregated day of the week. The Catholics are over here, the Christians are over there and the Pentecostals are in their church, but for all this worshipping God, they sure are not trying to get together with each other. This country has enough separation because of color, gender, men and women, rich, poor, so why not let the church separate us more?

Obama is an American that happens to be black, he has worked very hard to get this country moving, with no help from Republicans. They blocked, or filibustered, over 80 times in the last four years practices that could have helped our country (America) be jump-started. Now these supposed Christians did everything that they could to make this American that happened to be black look as if he did not do anything to help America.

Well, there you go. We are supposed to put a so-called Christian in office who has only his own agenda in mind. And I would like to think that most Christians are honest hard-working people. That is not how the God that I know operates or wants me to behave. This is how this terrible cycle of hate and indifference continues to grow in this country.

The man in Texas that hanged a chair by a noose and slandered our president was a clear sign of hate in this country. Why didn't these good Christian people stand against that type of behavior, or was it what they wanted to believe?

Now I find it very important to say that do I know a lot of people that are Christians that do embrace indifference in how a person looks or what political party you represent. They are the people who will not blame the ills of our country on God or one man because he is an American that happens to be black.

John Clay

Wooster

Narrow view of religion harmful

Editor:

Many early settlers who came to this country were victims of religious persecution in Europe. It is no surprise then, that the U.S. Constitution clearly includes freedom of religion as a founding principal.

Yet today, it is shocking that the Republican nominees for president, Mitt Romney and vice president Paul Ryan, wish to impose their restrictive religious views on all Americans. Their hurtful stands on women's reproductive health (family planning, birth control and freedom of choice), embryonic stem cell therapy to cure human disease and homosexual unions are among the most offensive examples.

Our founding fathers and authors of our Constitution would be dismayed to learn that those who would propose to lead this great nation would offer such a narrow view of religious expression and force their restrictive values upon all Americans.

Vice president Joe Biden, a devout Catholic, said it best, "My faith guides my life, but I am not going to impose my faith on everyone."

Letty and Skip Nault

Wooster

Terrill has served county well

Editor:

At this time of vote casting and review, please note the steadfast dedication and productivity of Roger Terrill in the supervision of roadways and bridges.

We are fortunate to have serving our county a man of proven qualifications and performance.

Dan Garrison

Wooster

Romney often changes positions

Editor:

What kind of leader does our country need? According to Grover Norquist, the no-tax pledge guy who holds so many of our representatives captive, we do not need a "fearless leader," we only need one with enough working digits to sign the bills fed to him by Congress. Our leader needs nothing else -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wYYX0mZsQA.

Do you believe we need a puppet? Do you want a president that more than anything resembles our Ohio weather? If you don't quite like his current stand, wait a few minutes, you'll get a different one.

Believe me? Go to your computer and ask your search engine to show you "Romney flip flops" and you will see enough videos to keep you busy the rest of the day. Pick an issue, any issue. You will hear the words he says. You can watch the progress from yes to no, from for to against and back again. You can hear him make a statement, then hear him deny saying it.

I agree with some of the planks in the Republican platform. So does the candidate -- sometimes. It depends where he is, who is listening and if he believes cameras are recording his words. Does this candidate reveal his true feelings when he tells donors he has no interest in the non-tax-paying 47 percent?

I am one of the 47 percent. I no longer earn a paycheck, so I pay no payroll taxes. I am a "taker" since I receive my income from Social Security and my health insurance from Medicare. It's how I pay my bills, so I rely on government money for "food, housing, medical care and you name it." It was disheartening. As one of the 47 percent, I am a bucket of sludge. I consider myself a victim. I refuse to take responsibility for my life.

I feel much better, though, since I heard Romney say he now cares about 100 percent of the American people. My problem, and it should be yours also, is the question of how long this statement will last. Is this what he really means or are these the words he is told to say for now to earn my vote?

Will he sit in the oval office simply because there are pens on the desk and he has enough working digits to use them?

Carol Botkin

Orrville

Want to leave your comments?

The truth WILL come out and all you loons will be FORCED to accept it.By the way,how many weeks did it take for Obama to get 'ALL THE FACTS" about bin Laden when he killed him?It was more like a few HOURS with that win.But now after a Sept.11 terror attack that KILLED FOUR AMERICANS Obama is still getting "ALL THE FACTS".When are they due?Why Nov.7 of course,after the election.You loons are being made fools of and are to ignorant to realize.What a waste of skin.

The Wall Street Journal is OWNED by Rupert Murdoch who also owns: FOX NEWS whose viewers are the LEAST informed. I'm including an entire GOOGLE PAGE of Choices - take your pick; they all say the same thing:_____http://www.bing.com/search?q=fox+news+informed+veiwers+rated&FORM=MYMSNA&mkt=en-US&mymsn-headersearch.x=0&mymsn-headersearch.y=0

No actually when he left it was 29th,but I don't expect truth from dman.That was with 87% Democrat congress.The same with Romneycare,a 76 page law that you and others continue to cite as the same as the 2700 page and growing Obamacare.You continue to blame but show no reason to vote FOR Obama just vote AGAINST Romney.Sorry facts are not on your side,but you already know that,and so do the majority of voters.I wonder how long after Romney takes the office before he will be responsible for everything?My guess would be a matter of weeks.Meanwhile you still don't give Obama responsibility for any decision he has or should have made.Obama is falling and you continue to defend the liar.And you still wonder why you are called a loon?

October 27, 2012 10:12AM

Mass. had 4 repub governors in a row ending with Mitt. Mitt did such a poor job they have elected dem governors the last 2 times. Job creation during Romney's term was 47th out of 50. Yet he promises 12 million new jobs. Businesses said Romney's higher fees hurt job growth. Romney ran for gov as a pro-choice candidate. Yet now he is pro-life. He created Romneycare. But now he is against Obamacare. Mass. went from the 29th highest in unemployment when Romney took office to the 18th by the end.

October 27, 2012 9:41AM

Mass. voted for Reagan twice. They will vote repub if there is a legitimate candidate. Obviously they don't think Romney is legit.

October 27, 2012 9:36AM

Nice try to blow it off bam. But it is a big deal if Romney can't get voters that made him a one term gov don't want any part of him to be president. They aren't going to make the same mistake twice.

October 27, 2012 5:29AM

Big deal dman.Massachusetts is hugely Democrat and has been for generations and like New York and California ignore the job Obama has done and will vote Democrat.No surprise there.Why is Obama refusing to run on his record?Why is Obama refusing to tell the American public the truth about Libya?He was all over it when bin Laden was killed and even gave up confidential information.So why the stonewall?Why the lies?Why not have a REAL press conference with REAL questions that need answers?What is he scared of?I know he is busy trying to get re-elected but if he has time for MTV the no time argument reeks of cover up.Why are you loons not demanding the truth?

October 26, 2012 10:13PM

dman, she most certainly does mention it on her website. Under the "About Judge Wiles" secition. direct quote "and was appointed interim Prosecuting Attorney for Wayne County for a short time upon the retirement of Martin Frantz." Next time, check you facts.

October 26, 2012 9:17PM

Here's the most important fact for the Presidential election. The people of Mass, who watched Romney up close as their governor, are overwhelmingly (by 17%!) going to vote for Obama for President. If the people of Romney's "home" state don't want him to be President, then why should anyone else?

October 26, 2012 9:10PM

Judge Wiles never mentions on her campaign website that she was interim Prosecutor.

October 26, 2012 6:55PM

And yet more misinformation from a left organization.You will find plenty of "facts"to support your loon candidates there.(Or do they just lie to fool the sheep?You know like Harry and his friend of a friend lie about Romney not paying taxes?)But the loons will continue to believe as long as they get their "fair share".To bad they just don't get a job and maybe the economy would actually improve without the Obama math and lies.

Dman, once again you are wrong. Wiles was appointed Interim Prosecutor of Wayne County after Martin Frantz retired and Dan Lutz was appointed, not a long time, but it was a few months. And as I pointed out Bailey has 0 exerpeience as a prosuctor or probate lawyer. She was appointed Judge in April, it's October now, so again you're wrong. Acedemic achievement - both graguated from the College of Wooster and the University of Akron Law School. Bailey's taught part-time at Akron. If you want to say that's "achievement", fine I'll give you that. What I was referring to is Miss Khyllep's claim that Judge Wiles doesn't have the acedemic credicentials to be Judge. Thatis flat out wrong. Bailey started as a court referee (magistrate) four years before he graduated law school. Back in the 70's the acdemic requirements for many jobs are no where near what they are today.

October 26, 2012 12:25PM

Republicans and their Super PAC allies have outspent Democrats by $131.6 million, and they’ve got $169 million in the bank to drop the hammer with before the election. Voters need to understand: 1% corporatocracy is BUYING this election. Right wingers who want minimum wage, unions, EPA - gone. The same 1% right wing who want to privatize your health with a voucher that won't keep up with costs. Private insurers are in the business to make money for the 1%, NOT worry about YOUR health..

October 26, 2012 11:53AM

Yes bam it would be nice if everybody could see the truth like Carol,but you will never read the truth with your lying eyes.The only people that can believe Romney's continued lying is another lying idiot like you bam.At least you don't flip-flop like Romney, you done just flipped a long time ago.

October 26, 2012 11:51AM

Letty & Skip Nault - great letter. - - - Would you like to 'see' how extreme some 'religious' folks can be? Makes one wonder: Have they EVER read the Constitution; if so do they understand its true meaning?____ http://www.votingforjesus.com/

October 26, 2012 11:18AM

Cheryl Khyllep - I agree. It's quite evident Ms. Wiles, young and inexperienced in many facets of juvenile issues, may have good intentions but the bottom line is 'experience'.
Judge Bailey innovated the GAL system in Wayne county; since his absence it has declined immeasurably. We need Judge Bailey elected to restore quality GAL investigations and to bring Wayne county back up to snuff equal to that of neighboring counties.

October 26, 2012 11:06AM

"Nice letter Carol,it would be nice if everybody could see the truth like you do."Golly 4064 I didn't know the truth could be misinterpreted like Carol did and still be the truth.Only the loon left can have their truth even when real facts tell a different story.Keep up with all the ridiculous comments,but the truth is either truth or lie.In this case your truth is not truth so call it what it is.

October 26, 2012 9:45AM

Leticia Wiles was appointed by John Kasich when Ray Leisy retired mid term. By law, this appointment has to be put to the vote of the people as will his appointment of Mark Clark. The latter will take place in 2013. I for one am happy to see that, at least in this race, we as voters actually have a choice and a real vote and not just a rubber-stamp vote.

October 26, 2012 9:34AM

Wiles was never the prosecutor. She only was a assistant prosecuting attorney. Bailey has been a probate and juvenile court judge for 12 years. Wiles 3 months. Bailey heard cases for 16 years as magistrate. Wiles zero. "Judge Wiles has the same level of acedemic achievement, if not more than Mr. Bailey." Huh? Bailey has been an adjunct professor of juvenile law at the University of Akron School of Law, where he has taught the past nine years. Being professor is far more achievement than just being a student. In 2008, he received the John R. Quine Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award, which is presented to the adjunct professor who has most successfully combined a practical approach to the teaching of law with a scholarly approach to the practice of law.

October 26, 2012 9:32AM

Nice letter Carol,it would be nice if everybody could see the truth like you do.I don't think Grover will make us a very good President.I can't believe how a morman(cult)person,like Romney can pull the wool over the eyes over the rest of the supposed to religious people.It is just amazing how fox bad news has gotten so mny people brain-washed.

October 26, 2012 5:33AM

Miss Khyllep, what is your definition of experience? Does Mr. Bailey have any expereience as a prosecutor? No, but Judge Wiles has 8 years experience. Does Mr. Bailey have any real trial lawyer experience? No, he doesn't. Has Mr. Bailey been certified by the Ohio Supreme Court as an appelate law specialist? No he hasn't but Judge Wiles has and she was the first prosecutor in Ohio to be certified as such. Does Mr. Bailey have experience working in a private law office that specializes in probate work? No, he doesn't and yes, this position is not just Juvenile Court, but Probate Court as well. Judge Wiles also recieved 2011 Meritorious Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of the Year award from the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association and was appointed interim Prosecuting Attorney for Wayne County prior to becomeing Judge. Judge Wiles has the same level of acedemic achievement, if not more than Mr. Bailey. Mr. Bailey as Ms. Perry points out in her letter above is on a personal vendetta against Judge Wiles and even more so against former Judge Leisy. He has had other opportunities in the past to run for this position and chose not to. He also chose not to apply for the appointment when Leisy retired. It was only after Judge Wiles let go a magistrate that was a friend of his that he chose to run. And it should be noted that the new magistrate Judge Wiles brought on is hearing 40% more cases than the former. Judge Bailey's time has passed. Judge Wiles is clearly more up to date on the issues facing both courts and has a much more rounded legal background than Mr. Bailey. Judge Wiles is not a political person. I fully expect her to have a long career on the Juvenile & Probate Court in Wayne County.

October 26, 2012 4:54AM

Did you see the entire video Carol?Or just the 30 seconds or so that was put out for the latest attack?Did you ever put "Obama lies" in your search engine,or are you only interested in the attacks and not the truth?It also is a fact that 46-47% of the people will vote for the Democrat no matter what.44-45% will vote for the Republican no matter who would be best.So the entire election comes down to 8-15% of the electorate.Do you ever wonder why Ohio,Virginia,Michigan and most notably Florida get so many visits but states like California get none,except of course to raise money?We currently have negative adds running at every commercial break and personally I receive dozens of fancy negative adds every week.Meanwhile a family member in another state has received nothing and no commercials are running except for local elections.Ask yourself why is Obama working so hard to get people to vote early?Could it be he is scared about information that may leak out of his secretive administration?Or ask yourself why is our President running only attack adds and not running on his record?Ask yourself why the mainstream media is not covering the lies this administration is telling us about Libya?Ask yourself why has this President not had an actual news conference since June,but will go on the view at the drop of a hat?Ask yourself why will Obama not go on a FOXNEWS program to prove they are lying about this administration?All the left knows that all FOX does is lie right?So it should be easy to prove it,so why don't they?Why is this the most divided this nation has been in decades and who is responsible?Why has Obama NOT talked to leaders in congress for 6 months or more?Just a few easy questions that should be asked and answered,but instead the attacks will continue.Facts always seem to get in the way.

October 26, 2012 4:31AM

One question John,Isn't this one man who happens to be black blaming one other man for all the ills in this country?One of the Christian principles is self responsibility isn't it?